[GNC] View/Filter by & Edit/Find

[Gyle McCollam]

Derek,
I know the find function is unrelated to the auto complete function, I just thought it wouold be great if they fuctioned along the same lines, without regard to the limitation of the account register involved.  However, executing the "find" from the chart of accounts page instead of the register gets me what I need, so thank you for that, it is greatly appreciated!

I also know that is not a bug, but more of a feature request, but totally unnecessary, now that you pointed out iy can be done from the COA page.

However, since I now know you are one of the developers, can you explain what I am missing when I change the filter in the view and don't select "save", why it seems to save the new parameters instead of reverting to the old 90-day limit, even on a restart?

BTW, I want to thank you, John, and all the developers for a great piece of software.  I never regret the day I found Gnu Cash when I needed to replace my previous software!


Thank You,

Gyle McCollam

Gyle McCollam

gmccollam at live.com<mailto:gmccollam at gyleshomes.com>           email

________________________________
From: Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2023 12:49 PM
To: Gyle McCollam <gmccollam at live.com>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] View/Filter by & Edit/Find

Hi,

This is not a bug.  The "Find" function, when started from an open
register, will always filter on the register contents.  So if you have the
register limited to 90 days, the Find will only search there.

If you want to start from a "scratch" find then you need to go to the
Chart of Accounts page.

The Find function is completely unrelated to autocompletion.

-derek

On Thu, February 16, 2023 12:21 pm, Gyle McCollam wrote:
> When entering a new transaction in an account the auto complete works even
> if the transaction is older than the limit set in "View/Filter by", which
> is great and how I think it should work.  However, when you do an
> "Edit/Find", it only finds transactions within the date range of
> View/Filter by.  I think both the Auto Complete and Find should work the
> same way.
>
> Since they don't, I had to change the View /Filter by from the 90 days I
> had set on the account to All, but I didn't save the filter because I
> wanted it to go back to the 90 days when I finished.  I really don't think
> i should have had to change it all.  Anyway, this brought another problem
> to my attention.  How do you get the view back to 90 days without setting
> the "Filter by" again.  I tried closing and reopening the account, that
> didn't work.  So, I tried closing Gnu Cash and reopening, that didn't work
> either.  It appears that even though I didn't "save" the filter it saved
> it anyway.
>
> It would be best if we didn't have to change the filter just to do a find.
>  Is this a bug or bugs that should be reported when the Gnu Cash website
> comes back up?
>
>
> Thank You,
>
> Gyle McCollam
>
> Gyle McCollam
>
> gmccollam at live.com<mailto:gmccollam at gyleshomes.com>           email
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